Linouse Desravine won bronze medal in Judo

March 15, 2015 8:27 AM

Haiti has secured itself a decent 3 medals in the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games. Held from the 14th to the 30th of November in Veracruz, Mexico, the games featured a host of sports including weightlifting and judo. Of the former Haiti took home 2 medals. The latter category saw Haiti's third win, as women's category (52kg) contestant Linouse Desravine won the bronze medal.

Her first fight, against Vicky Fonseca from Nicaragua, was a quarter final in which she won 3:00' (000 - 000S3) with 3 Shidos from her opponent. She then went on to fight Yanet Bermoy from Cuba, again winning the fight with one Shido in 4:00. Her final fight, which secured her the medal, was with Jormary Palmas of Venezuela, whom she beat by ippon in 1:02 (001-100). While having won all three of her fights, the final scoring allowed for Desravine to get the second bronze while first bronze went to Monica Hernandez, silver went to Maria Garcia, and gold to Yanet Bermoy.

In the athletics division, the country's two weightlifting medals went to Luciano Edouar Joseph who won bronze in the (56kg) category with Luis Garcia from Dominican Republic getting silver and Carlos Andres Berna from Colombia getting gold. He also took home bronze for the (105kg) category, with the medal scoring exactly the same.

Outside of the games, Haiti's women's football team took on Trinidad and Tobago in a match that ended with a 1-all draw following goals by Roselord Borgella in the 27th minute and Patrice Campbell from Trinidad and Tobago in the 51st. The following day, the team faced Colombia but were beaten 3-nil, while the men's team were beaten 4-nil by Venezuela.

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